Jack and Jenny
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Jack and Jenny |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Victor Vicas |
| script |
Kurt Nachmann based on the novel Early to Bed by Anne Piper |
| production | Gero alarm clock |
| music | Paul Misraki |
| camera | Werner M. Lenz |
| cut | Ira Oberberg |
| occupation | |
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Jack and Jenny is a German love story directed by Victor Vicas with Senta Berger and Brett Halsey in the leading roles.
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The basic structure of this story is that of the old legend of the two royal children who could not come together. Here the two prevented lovers are a pretty, young saleswoman named Jenny who is completely in love with the painter and womanizer Jack. He, too, thinks Jenny is simply adorable and stunning. Both have their reasons not to admit their love to one another - it's the old game, the fear of revealing too much about yourself and possibly being rejected and hurt. And so they play with each other in their non-relationship and sneak around the eternal theme of love and the three little words like cats around the bush.
Between the first meeting and the final happy ending, the two lovers take numerous detours. Jenny thinks that Jack is an egomaniac and therefore ostentatiously marries someone else twice - of course, promptly the wrong person. And yet she sinks into Jack's arms or ends up in his bed during this constant back and forth, both on the night before her wedding to Jack's friend Eduard and on the occasion of the divorce that has just taken place. Jack, on the other hand, would like to have Jenny, but is disrupted and is terrified of marriage, even if he loves Jenny passionately. After the second marriage, Jenny is still beautiful, and now a rich widow too. Time for Jack to finally approach the woman of his life.
Production notes
Filming of Jack and Jenny began on September 13, 1963. Outdoor shots took us to Italy and Thailand. This last theatrical production by Victor Vicas was released on December 25, 1963.
For the former film liane Marion Michael , too , this film ended her short-lived cinema career. After seven years, her contract with Gero Wecker's production company had expired and was not renewed.
For the main actress Senta Berger, the film, which was very badly discussed, was also good. There she got to know her husband Michael Verhoeven (whom she had already seen for the first time in 1960) and fell in love on the very first day of shooting, as she revealed in an interview.
The buildings were designed by Ernst H. Albrecht and carried out by Max Vorwerg . Ingrid Zoré designed the costumes . Chief cinematographer Werner M. Lenz was also the production manager. Former Disney man Steve Previn is said to have (anonymous) helped out Victor Vicas with the direction.
Reviews
“The film proves the thesis of social justice on the level of the decrepit nursery rhyme that every pot has its lid; Victor Vicas, whose dubious "path without turning back" was a milestone in the development of the Cold War, has neither a comedy nor a satire, but just a scrap on the screen. "
In Paimann's film lists it says: “In spite of good approaches and a successful exposure and sympathetic cast, directness is often offered later instead of charm in this plot. [...] Somewhat appealing. "
"Unsuccessful comedy that trivializes the sexual and propagates the lack of ties."
The Lexicon of International Films said: "Record Comedy."
Web links
- Jack and Jenny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jack and Jenny at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Short message in the Hamburger Abendblatt from September 14, 1963
- ↑ BamS interview with Senta Berger
- ↑ Source: Die Zeit, edition 5/1964
- ↑ Jack and Jenny ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Paimann's film lists
- ↑ Source: Films 1962/64, Handbook VII of the Catholic Film Critics, Düsseldorf 1965, p. 88
- ↑ Jack and Jenny. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2015 .
